Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Venezuela answers to U.S. pressures received on Snowden asylum

Venezuelan Foreign Minister ElíasJaua:

"The
Government of the United States, and the Department of State, should
know that we have learned, since long time ago, and we have defeated
pressures from anywhere in the world."

"We are going to act, as stated by President Nicolas Maduro,
according to international law, and according to our principles.
Venezuela has a tradition of providing refuge, shelter, to the political
persecuted."

"We just cannot leave alone a young man that
dared to mark an ethical and moral stance regarding an absolutely
shameful fact, which is that one country controls the whole world"

By Marcello Ferrada-Noli

In order to stop further exposures by Edward Snowden,
principally on the extension that the US agencies spy on the
whereabouts and lives of ordinary U.S. citizens, and also abroad, the
Obama administration “needs” to criminalize Snowden ethical behaviour.

The cannot acknowledge that Edward Snowden, as in the case of Julian Assange or Brad Manning, are to the highest degree ethically-minded
individuals in pursuing disclosures about central, aggravating deeds,
committed against the people. That they have been engaged in a social
information enterprise solely directed at expose what is criminal from
the part of those in power has to be concealed at any price.

That
is the reason why whistle-blowers are called instead “spies”, and their
ethical behaviour is criminalized by the magic of that label. Then, the
distance from “spies” to “traitors” is just the one from a finger to
the Enter-key in a keyboard.

The
powerful empire of ancient times, the Catholic Church administrated by
corrupted popes, had exactly such behaviour against those exposing the
nature of their deceiving. Scientists, particularly in the profession of
medicine (for instance those who denounced the pogrom of Jews that the
popes ordered “to eradicate cholera-pests”), were labelled as heretic or
demons serving Satan. And executed as traitors, or witches.

The
Venezuela government has offered asylum to Mr Snowdon, as other
Latin-American countries such as Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, etc. have
done it.

Under
the pretext they are persecuting a criminal, a traitor of the national
interests of the U.S., the Obama administration has exercised recently
blunt threats and pressures against the government of Venezuela.

This is what Venezuelan Foreign Minister replied to such pressures [translation to English below the Spanish text]:

First,
we know that there are many (such) pressures, in the world, no? We have
received two notes of the government of the United States, (and) some
calls from officials at the State Department.

The
Government of the United States, and the Department of State, should
know that we have learned, since long time ago, and we have defeated
pressures from anywhere in the world.

We are going to act, as stated by President Nicolas Maduro,
according to international law, and according to our principles.
Venezuela has a tradition of providing refuge, shelter, to the political
persecuted.

In another, extended edition of the same interview, Minister EiasJaua declared:

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